According to Douglas H. Ort: While burning my CPU.
>
> I'm being given an old Thinkpad 500 (monochrome, 486-50). It's been maxed
> out to 12 megs of RAM, but it has a new HD (4 gig). So there's a CPU limit
> and a RAM limit but not a hard drive limit.
>
> Can a machine like this handle X? Any recommends on swap file size? And
> any limits with X on a monochrome screen?
Yes it should handle X ok, speed will be a slight drawback, i have never
used a mono server but i would imagen there should be little difference
execpt color of course.
with 12 meg 24 megs of swap is acceptable.
I have a 486dx66 with 12 meg, i used to run X on it, netscape might take a
while, +/- 15 seconds to load.
My router is that machine, and has memory usage as follows after 69 days
uptime, BTW i dont use X on it nowadays.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 10772 9808 964 2788 2948 4576
-/+ buffers/cache: 2284 8488
Swap: 16316 892 15424
As you see it has only 16 megs swap.
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> Doug Ort
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> ~-----Original Message-----
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> ~[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
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> ~Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 6:21 AM
> ~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ~Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ~Subject: Re: Linux for a 386
> ~
> ~
> ~According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU.
> ~>
> ~> Hello!
> ~>
> ~> I was kind of wondering if any one knew of a Linux dis that
> ~would run on a 386
> ~> with 4 mb of ram.
> ~>
> ~
> ~Basicly any distro, the minimum requirments for linux is 386 with 4 meg,
> ~however you will not be able to run in X as that realy requires a miniumum
> ~of 8 meg.
> ~
> ~The biggest problem will be the speed of apps, and the fact that quite
> ~possably you will have disk space problems so you will need to be pikky
> ~about what you install.
> ~
> ~I still have a 386 with 4 meg running linux at our local radio club, it has
> ~a 80 meg disk which is 80% full. The swap space on that machine is only 8
> ~meg.
> ~
> ~What you can do is just install a base system and add programs as you need
> ~them, all distro's have some sort of package manager so command line
> ~installing is no problem.
> ~
> ~
> ~> I have an old laptop lying around and would like to have some
> ~fun with it.
> ~>
> ~> Thanks
> ~> Will
> ~>
> ~> PS: If you could please respond to my email address and not just
> ~the list. I
> ~> have not been receiving mail from the list lately.
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> ~> Date: 26-Jun-99
> ~> Time: 04:03:46
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> ~--
> ~Regards Richard.
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